The ABA Journal officially kicked off its Legal Rebels project yesterday, posting the first seven profiles of the 50 legal innovators it plans to feature. As Carolyn Elefant first wrote here last month, the project will profile lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals who are "remaking the profession" through innovation and perhaps also grit.

The first group of rebels are legal professionals who all have causes of one sort or another. They are:

Richard Granat, a pioneer in the use of the Internet to deliver legal services.

Rick Palmore, the General Mills executive vice president and general counsel who has helped spearhead efforts to promote diversity at outside firms.

The Legal Rebels project is a multimedia affair. Each profile is accompanied by video and audio. A Legal Rebels manifesto was cooperatively written over the last month by contributors to a wiki and is now open for legal professionals to add their signatures. You can follow the project on just about any social media platform. And you can follow the ABA Journal editors as they take the project on a road tour, visiting a different "Rebel" every day for two weeks, starting Sept. 14.

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Legal Rebels With a Cause

The ABA Journal officially kicked off its Legal Rebels project yesterday, posting the first seven profiles of the 50 legal innovators it plans to feature. As Carolyn Elefant first wrote here last month, the project will profile lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals who are "remaking the profession" through innovation and perhaps also grit.

The first group of rebels are legal professionals who all have causes of one sort or another. They are:

Richard Granat, a pioneer in the use of the Internet to deliver legal services.

Rick Palmore, the General Mills executive vice president and general counsel who has helped spearhead efforts to promote diversity at outside firms.

The Legal Rebels project is a multimedia affair. Each profile is accompanied by video and audio. A Legal Rebels manifesto was cooperatively written over the last month by contributors to a wiki and is now open for legal professionals to add their signatures. You can follow the project on just about any social media platform. And you can follow the ABA Journal editors as they take the project on a road tour, visiting a different "Rebel" every day for two weeks, starting Sept. 14.